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Germany. James Towler in aletter te his father, Joseph Towler,Llstated that there was some hope ofHi;atnegetting: home soon, as ms outnt was under orders to start for Brest Jul^We stated that they had turned all their surplus equipment, and salvaged almost all their planes.He is with an aero squadron. ou“We have salvaged all the planes but one, and it goes tomorrow,” he writes. “it’s a crime to salvage ajfj€ machine like it. It’s the one 1 workisatreon, and we have only had it a few 0j. days. It hasn’t been in the air mor~ ^ than a half a dozen times, but nevertheless we have to make a bonfireout of it. i“We burned thirteen yesterday and I took some pictures of them before we set fire to them and snapped somemore while they were burning. VV«took the motors out and sawed the} cc sides of the planes and removed the a|gas tanks, and then pulled the re- j ^ mainder of the machines into theaidi81middle of the aerodrome, piled them together and gave the whole works a gasoline bath. We then got back for ajsome distance and fired a rocket. It jsure made some fire.“This one we will fire tomorrowwill make a nice blaze by itself, forblt;we are going to saturate it with gas and oil before touching the match.“It looks like a shame to burn up machin s like this. They cost aboutnlt;fitl$16,000 apiece, and they don’t get $500 for the scrap that is left. Thisis an example of what the Amreican jpeople are paying for.“At Coblenz they are selling stuffto the litins, or rather giving it to i s(l. A a an example, they are sell- ^ ing leather jerkins for a mark apiece,1a fraction ov- r certs, if one of us pfellows lost one of them they charged ^ us $4.80. In other words, they cost ^the Geimans $4.80 less than the U. S.wWe have sure had a terrible experi- ^ ence, and we will be paying for theprivilege the remainder of our lives. I don’t mind it though, if I can justget home again.We will get our third servicesiISstripe before long. We are due toput it up by July ^“We were billed to sail July 11, but I jgcouldn’t make it, and 1 don’t know j pnow when we will sail, although it is j f, reported thae Wr* may get away by j p25. In that event we should ( tjreach the states the first part of August, i am hoping we get started , ^soon.e:itJAMES TOWLER, h,a180 Aero Squadron, A. E. F., Grr- ^many.” i .»«£ai
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Greensburg Standard
Greensburg, Indiana, US
Fri, Aug 01, 1919
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